Dear Andrew
My sister has a cat called 'serendipity' or
'seren' for short. My favourite tired word
in Oz poetry is 'anti-pastoral'. Oh and then
there's 'emerging' or 'emergent' (no offence
intended to Deb Comerford).
best
Hugh
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From: Andrew Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: Tired words
> Yep!
>
> 'Minutiae', 'tendril', 'shard' are definitely some for the least-wanted
> list.
>
> On a similar topic, anyone else see that list of the Nation's
> Favourite Words in (I think) The Express newspaper last week?
> Survey of 15,000 people I believe . . . in first place was
> 'serendipity'. Interesting that two made-up words (from the
> Harry Potter series) also made it into the top 10 -- 'quiddich' (sp?)
> and 'muggle'. I think 'onomatopoeia' made top 5.
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